10 ms·Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch3 points by znano 1y agoimbhmn 1y agoFor the header you need to add a sort of MAC system to authenticate the metadata and the headerznano 1y agoYeah thanks for the suggestion, i guess i can allocate a few bytes at the end of the header for the MAC so it would prevent tweaking the metadata.